Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848

by Joel H. Silbey

Choice Outstanding Title The presidential campaign of 1848 saw the first strong electoral challenge to the expansion of slavery in the United States; most historians consider the appearance of the Free Soil Party in that election a major turning point of the nineteenth century. The three-way race capped a decade of political turmoil that had raised the issue of slavery to unprecedented prominence on the national stage and brought about critical splits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700616403
• ISBN13: 9780700616404
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"